#stark trek ds9

[geogrewife]

The Jem’Hardar are so interesting. Every time we linger on them it’s like we see the beginnings of a culture forming. Only to have it immediately crushed because all of them are killed.

The Jem’Hardar have so much potential. I hope more is done with their species than just being bad guys.

[forged-in-kaoss]

misc Garak and Bashir gifs from 4x09 Our Man Bashir :: for @shivanessa

[jaegermonstrous]

Okay but also "Distant Voices"? I know there's been a lot of discussion in how it's all about Julian's fear of aging and it is, but Also! When you stack up "Passenger" and "Inquisition" and "Distant Voices" you get a whole theme about Julian not being able to trust his own mind and what it tells him, which you could also pair up with "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" and the trauma of his augmentations and how they changed his perceptions. Especially since he effectively didn't know about those until he was a teenager, which means Julian spent a good deal of his formative years learning his brain was different from other peoples' in ways he didn't understand.

Julian is always an unreliable narrator, but even more so when we think about all the times he's had to question his own mind and his own understanding.

The trauma of Inquisition leading to Julian starting to dissociate at times when he's alone... He realises he's losing time and starts to wonder how real everything actually is, and if Sloan has done something more to him, or if Sloan had a point and maybe he really was reprogrammed by the Dominion...

Alternatively, Julian having experienced periods of dissociation fairly often *before* Inquisition, and when Sloan asks him "have you ever found periods of time unaccounted for?" Julian has to answer "yes" and finds he really can't be certain that the Dominion didn't get to him... Especially since his answer means that *Sloan* is even more convinced his hypothesis is correct.

[dangerousconnoisseurdonut]

In the Star Trek universe, it's sad to think but you know which comic was probably banned by the 24th century?

Captain America.

Think about it - he was a man who was literally augmented and became stronger than a normal man. True, he didn't get any smarter, but he went from a 90 lb weakling into a beefcake.

What if Julian found these comics by accident after he discovered what had been done to him - would he be inspired by Cap's honour, valour, and integrity? Or would he have trouble understanding why someone would willingly undergo such a procedure? And then there's the movie with Tony's memorable line.

Everything special about you came out of a bottle.

Would that line haunt Julian? Would he think the same thing, that all of the things he had done came from the augmentations, and nothing was his own; we know he thought of himself as unnatural and a monster, where would those thoughts go when you consider another person who hoped to duplicate Erskine's formula, with gamma radiation.

Would he find sympathy in a 'monster' who responded to extreme emotions like hate and fear? Who does Julian see himself as?

[jvlianbashir]

kira and odo are ketchup and mustard

[vaguely-concerned]

I feel like there's got to be a hairdresser somewhere on ds9 and they are constantly having the weirdest time anyone's ever had

[gossyreblogs]

I’ve been on a slow rewatch of Star Trek DS9; tonight I’m on S2 E23, “Crossover”

And, just. Damn. I’d almost started to think it was just part of Avery Brook’s acting style, but he absolutely can be mobile and expressive—even with subtle expressions—when he wants to be!

Which just… means that Sisko, as a character, isn’t. With very nearly the sole exception being when he’s interacting with Jake. Huh.

[sapphicpoetspost]

“I feel bad for the guy, his wife exploded.” - my authentic reaction to watching the very first episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine with my best bro @singingsawenthusiast

this is my second ever stark trek episode to ever watch. the first episode I watched was the unionization episode.

[evilghostfarmer]

there’s something so human about a Starship crew.

“i may be staring down the barrel of things i’ve never known, and do not understand, but i have you, and that makes it all just a little bit more reachable.”

i am floating in the empty, in the vast, in the dark, but i have these once strangers, this now family. i’d live and die by their word, because they are just, and kind, and moral. they are my friends. and i trust them completely.

[jimintomystery]

DS9: "The House of Quark"

A drunkard named Kozak gets himself killed in Quark's bar. After Quark claims to have killed the Klingon in self-defense, Kozak's widow Grilka marries him to solidify her control of the estate. Meanwhile, Chief O'Brien struggles to help his wife Keiko after she closes Deep Space Nine's school.

This is debatably a Ferengi episode, since so much of it is about Quark and Rom and their problems are played for laughs. But usually Ferengi episodes are all about problems caused by quirks of Ferengi culture, so the Klingon angle here just hits different. If you're looking for a distinction between a Quark episode and a Ferengi episode starring Quark, that'll have to do.

The gimmick here is that Quark doesn't understand anything about the Klingon rules and rituals that have dragged him into this mess, even after it's explained to him. Pulling that off in 1994 is no small feat. After seven years of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we're used to seeing this world through Lieutenant Worf's eyes, and he made it make sense to us. So making it feel confusing and inconsistent without contradicting the existing lore is pretty impressive. Of course, it helps that the Klingon code of honor is full of loopholes that give cover to Kozak's sinister brother D'Ghor.

The common theme between the A and B plots are that business on the station has dried up because everyone is afraid of a Dominion attack coming through the wormhole. It's an interesting change in direction from the previous two seasons, but there's no follow-up; the station is clearly bustling with activity within a few episodes. The only lasting development is that Keiko's school will never re-open.

Keiko started DS9's school in part to give herself something to do, since the station didn't need a botanist. On TNG she worked in the Enterprise aboretum, but now we're told that she could never be happy doing that same job on DS9. Plan B, then, is for Keiko to join a scientific expedition on Bajor, which is great, but why didn't anyone suggest that in the first place, before she even started the school? It's as if the O'Briens had to wait for the showrunners to get the school business out of their system.

[geogrewife]

Garak had no reason to look this good after murdering a bunch of Jem’Hardar.

[ineffablecabbage]

People in the comments trying to argue that this is a misrepresentation of Picard... but it's not.

Picard was willing to sit on the bridge of his ship and watch a planet die when he could have stopped it, because Prime Directive.

Anyway, before Sisko, there was Kirk, and there is a reason that Sikso canonically loved Kirk.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE DS9 OH GODDDDD

Jesus Christ it feels like a breath of fresh air after tng I SWEAR.

Like.. Picard is a centrist. That's it. For the most part he does things by the book, and like he cares about people but he stands on "welp I guess they're both bad so.." or "yeah I sympathize with them but I mean prime directive is prime directive so.."

And Sisko has none of it. He still operates within the system, yes, but you can also see how he's having none of that. If the rule is stupid he's not following it, because he's not a mindless soldier. He could and should've stopped O'brien from freeing this slave because of the prime directive but he didn't. He could and should've reported Kira for staying on the moon with this old man but he didn't!! He's still a star fleet officer but he will go out of his way to stop injustice or help people

I love him so muchhhh

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

Mod announcement:

This weekend will be pretty busy for this blog. Why? Well, if you didn’t see it in some previous posts, this weekend will be dedicated to FICTIONAL BACKLASH!!!

The event will be this Saturday (November 30). To avoid spamming everyone with 9 polls at the same time, I’ve spaced each poll/match out by an hour. So the first poll/match will release at 3 pm (PDT) and continue on to 11 pm (PDT) for a total of 9 polls/matches.

This will be the line-up for Fictional Backlash:

1. Percy Jackson vs. Luke Castellan (click this for the storyline behind this match)

2. Buffy Summers and Angel vs. Morticia Addams and Gomez Addams (click this for the storyline behind this match)

3. Jack O’Neill vs. Benjamin Sisko (click this for the storyline behind this match)

4. Yoruichi Shihouin (c) vs. Rayla for the NXTB Women’s Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

5. Adonis Creed (c) vs. Ren Amamiya for the NXTB Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

6. Nami (c) vs. Seras Victoria for the Women’s World Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

7. Dr. Gregory House (c) vs. James Logan Howlett for the World Heavyweight Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

8. Avatar Korra (c) vs. Asami Sato for the Ultimate Women’s Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

9. Tony Stark (c) vs. Damian Wayne vs. Peter Parker for the Universal Championship (click this for the storyline behind this match)

[j3rrysblog]

Awesome Star Trek fact #1

Starships run on semen, called spirk in the future. They used to masturbate into receptacles named Jeffries tubes, but in modern Treks, it’s all automated via the holodecks.

[jvlianbashir]

What should be the first episode of Ds9 that I show my boyfriend?

He's agreed to watch one with me and I want it to be a really good one but not one that you need huge amounts of context to understand

Any ideas would be appreciated thank you!

hmmmm.... "far beyond the stars" is always one of the gold standards for me as far as ds9 episodes, but context about the show and its themes and characters certainly adds a lot to the experience of watching it so i'm not sure i would show it to him out of the gate.

"duet" was a gripping watch for me the first time i saw it and i think the episode gives you enough context within itself to understand the story without having watched the show in its entirety.

"past tense: parts i & ii" don't really require much ds9 or star trek knowledge at all to understand if i remember correctly and i do enjoy those episodes. they always feel relevant and with it now actually being 2024, especially so.

"whispers" was an episode that fucked me up a little - one of my more favorite "o'brien suffers" episodes - and if i remember, it was pretty self-contained as far as what info you needed to understand it

good luck and i hope he gets inspired to watch more!

[pagingdr-iverson]

Fucking BYE! NOW I can’t UNSEE IT! 😂

It's Sisko Wiggle Wednesday